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@GOOD Asks: Should Governments Be Allowed to Track Civilians Through Their Mobile Phones? The Community Answers

@David Russo thinks that it could make sense to track potentially dangerous people like sex offenders. What do you think?

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Video: This is Your Brain on Cell Phone

Breaking news: Cell phones may or may not harm your brain.

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Haiti Quake Recovery One Year Later: Six Things You Can Do

There's no shortage of NGOs working on the island nation, but the situation there remain dire and the recovery has "barely begun" according to Oxfam.

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Jerry Brown Takes Away 48,000 State Employees' Cellphones

In an effort to get California's unruly budget under control, Jerry Brown is taking away the taxpayer-provided cellphones of 48,000 state employees.

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The World's Most Revolutionary Cell Phone

Forget the iPhone, the BlackBerry, the Android. The Nokia 1100 is owned by 250 million people worldwide, and therefore has the greatest capacity for impact.

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@GOOD Asks: Has Texting Replaced Phone Conversations? Answers

Good readers tell us their thoughts about texting: "Texting is less invasive than a phone call," and "My daughter never talks to anyone on her phone."

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Landline-Only Polls Do, in Fact, Have a Republican Bias

Adding cell phones to a poll gives you a five point swing toward the Democratic candidate.

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Can Free Cell Phones Motivate Kids to Learn? (UPDATED)

An experiment with 1,500 kids in Oklahoma City, led by Harvard economist Roland Fryer, hopes to find out.

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Can Cell Phones Really Save the Planet?

Sort of. It's not the gadget that will make the difference-but what we do with it. The Center for American Progress' Bracken Hendricks explains.

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The Psychology Behind Why Cell Phone Talkers Are So Annoying

Overhearing half a conversation is inherently jarring, a study finds, and it has implications for safety while behind the wheel.

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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Cell Phone E-waste?

From tweens furiously texting to businessmen incessantly checking for incoming e-mails, it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell where a...

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Dialing Our Pain with Our Cell Phones (Which Are Killing Us Softly)

For the past decade, there has been a fairly constant stream of nightly local news features on how cell phones might cause brain tumors or...

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One Charger for All the Universe's Phones

Back in February we heard that the cell phone companies were thinking about making every phone compatible with a single kind of charger. Well,...